Dracula. Stoker B.

No book in European literature of the last centuries can even get closer to the popularity of Braham’s novel (Abraham) Stoker (1847-1912) “Dracula” (1897), whose main character burst far beyond the framework of not only the novel itself, but also The literature in general, and turned into one of the symbols of the past century and, even wider - all modernity. Based on European traditions and legends, occultism and esoterics of the Victorian era Stoker, the successor of the “Gothic” line of M. Shelly and Sh. Le Fanya, R.L. Stevenson and O. Wilde, managed to create his own unusually beautiful neo -Gothic world, extending from the Middle Ages to the present day, from mysterious Transylvania to cozy London. And most importantly - to offer humanity a new mythical hero. Hero for all times.

T.N. Krasavchenko, the translator “Draculas”, especially for this publication, prepared a new, more complete and accurate publication, the editor of the translation of the novel beloved to the reader.

is very representative “additions” of this publication. First of all, this is the story of Stoker's “Guest Dracula” - either a chapter that was not included in the novel, or an independent work, which at one time was no less popular. A selection of their many responses was adopted to get a relief picture of how contemporaries was adopted by the “DRA-KUL”. The main part of the section is the extensive corps of historical texts: the poem of the Austrian Meistersger of the late 15th century Michael Behaim “Dracul-Voivodes” (translation by V.B. Mikush-Vich), fragments of “Notes on the Nemanding Acts” of the Pope of the Roman Pius of the Roman II, the chronicle “On one evil Tiranna, nicknamed the Dracula-Voivodes, "Bartholomew Gotan, fragments of the" Slavic Servic Chronicle "by J. Brankovich and others. The reader will be able to get acquainted with the prototype of Dracula-the" malicious "governor of the chain-sho, who overshadowed the villains of the acts of Nero, Diocletian and Herod. His terrifying machinations are described in detail by contemporaries, including those who knew the cruel to the governor personally.

The deep article of leading domestic researchers, M.P. Odessa and T.A. Mikhailova, illuminating all aspects of the life and work of Stoker, the root system that gave rise to his cult character.

is recommended for the widest circle of readers.